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Assuming you're interested in the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics. Under that interpretation, the cat would have 50% created an artifact and 50% not created one. On the other hand, in the multiple-universes theory, the universe splits into two, one where the artifact was created and one where it was not. For various reasons, including time travel issues, I prefer the latter.They have a 50% chance of doing so per hour if left in a box with a flask of poison, a Geiger counter, and a single atom of a radioactive isotope with a half-life of an hour. Or maybe that's dying.It's not about probability of it happening, it is that it will simultaneously happen and not happen until observed to be one or the other.
If it was reduction ad absurdum, what SHOULD happen when you lock the cat in the box? Why should the laws of physics turn off when we lock cats in boxes?Look, Schrodinger was a closed-minded fool. Superposition of states does happen in the quantum level, and yes, it doesn't work that way when you bring it into the realm of classical mechanics, but there's a bridge we have to cross. He was just being unreasonable. Too bad we observe him to be dead.They have a 50% chance of doing so per hour if left in a box with a flask of poison, a Geiger counter, and a single atom of a radioactive isotope with a half-life of an hour. Or maybe that's dying.It's not about probability of it happening, it is that it will simultaneously happen and not happen until observed to be one or the other.
Isn't the whole idea with the cat to show that if you accept that for particles superposition of states exists, then it must exist for classical objects also? As it is basically about a thought-experiment where you are giving a cat the wave function of a particle.
It was Schrödinger's attempt at a reductio ad absurdum, but he failed to consider that sometimes what seems absurd to a brilliant physicist is true regardless.
Smoothed natural stone will not prevent plant growth. Constructed floors, however, will work just fine.What happens if the constructed tile gets muddy?
Paved roads are sort of in between - shrubs and saplings will appear, but every 500 frames the road will "purge" the terrain beneath it, destroying the plants and also resetting the floor to random "rough" tiles.
Roads use the least amount of materials, but they can cause a minor amount of lag if you have a lot of them (since plants will be constantly created and destroyed). Constructed floors use more materials, but they prevent the plants from showing up in the first place.
Boiling looks like exploding, and it leads to a tragedy inexplicably considered worse than dwarven death...loss of alcohol.Military dwarfs sometimes get in trouble when they carry booze. It explodes.What on earth are you talking about? Booze has NEVER been explosive in ANY released version of DF. All that happens when it gets heated up is that it boils - in the earlier 2D versions, this may have caused scalding damage (just like steam), but ever since temperature was implemented it has been completely harmless.
